Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18
State News Items.

Any person adulterating maple sugar
or syrup is subject to fine of $50 under
the state law.
The towns of Bennington and Shafts
bury have beer quarautined on account of
| cattle disease.
| 1t is now stated that the late Colonel
A. b. Jewett of Swanton left property
valued at $500, 900.
Mrs. L. w. Miner, aged sixty, of Aber
corn, p. @, committed suicide at Rich
ford, April 8, by taking paris green.
The compilation of the railroad laws
| OF Verm ont, printed for the board of rail-
road commissioners, has just been pub
| lished.
A big land slide occurred Monday on
| the Rutland Division of the Central Yer
mont railway, near Rutland, necessitat-
ing the temporary abandonment of freight
| traffic.
The American Institute of Instruction
| will mold its d fty-eighth annual meeting at
| Burlington July SO. Arrangements are
in progress for the usual reduced rates on
the railroads and at hotels.
OF the medals OF honor awarded by the
| United States for distinguished services
| during the War of the Rebellion, seven
were awarded TO VermonLers, and three
10 the First Vermont Cavalry.
John D. Bridgman, fifty nine years old,
well-known lawyer of Bellows Falls,
died of paralysis last week. He repre-
scented his town in the legislature of 1857
and 1858 and was state senator in 1880
and 1881.
1t is said that there was poker game
| in Montpelier on ii recent evening, dur
ing the course of which, it is reported,
an eX-gOvernment official and his partner
dropped 500 TO IA professional card
sharp and his partners we'll known paste
board manipulation.
Henry W.Tewksbury of West Randolph,
the lecturer, who was injured in the
Hartford railroad disaster, is recovering
very slowly. As an arm and leg both on
the same side of the body, suffered, it has
tended to retard his progress, since he
can not use "A crutch.
The Franklin county board of under
writer's voted unanimously to ra.se the
rates twenty per cent on all rated proper
ty in Swanton, because there is no organ
lied fire department at that place and be-
cause of an entire lack OF proper means
fer extinguishing the fires
rnucb ,IraadaI .nr;,,r
New England have started. The Central
Vermont road is the first to feel its effects
seriously at the north. The temporary
bridge at Hartford, where the terrible
disaster occurred last winter, was carried
away Sunday night, April 10.
ST. Adams Butter Market April II: At
tendance and receipts ii little heavier than
last week. Prices ruled lower in the mar
ket than a week ago. Common to fair
butter ranged in price from Is 10 30 cents.
few ''gilt-edge" d1iries brought 81 and
y cents. Sugar brought about the same
price as last week.
Among prominent members of the Meth
Odi>t denomination who are expected t.
be present during the Vermont Confer
ence at st. Johnshury are Rev. Drs. But
er and Thorhurn, the famous misSiona-
ries, Chaplain McCahe, Mr.. j p Magee,
Rev. DIR. J. o Peck of New Haven, Conn.
Rev. DR.. b. X. Pierce, editor of Zion's
Herald. and others equally well known.
An Ell Paso, Texas, dispatch says that
a company of eastern capitalists have
been formed under the name of the Grand
Smelling, Milling aud Refining company,
with 5000, 900 capital paid in, to erect
works at FL Paso Immediately. The com-
pany includes the names OF EX-Gov. j.
Gregory Smith, president Of the Central
Vermont railway, and Chief Justice
Royce of Vermont.
Gov. Ormsbee has appointed ex Con
President Ezra Brainrrd of MiddleDury
college and Principal 5. w. Landnn OF
the Burlington public schools, commits
sion under the act of the last Legislature
to remodel the school law, and report IA
bill at the next session. The commits
sioners talked over their duties with the
governor of Rutland Tuesday aud will
thoroughly investigate the working of
the school laws in all parts of The state,
as well the most successful systems in
other states. They will meet in Rutland
in June to compare notes.
The Chesapeake nail works, employing